Internet Browser War. Review on Tips on Web Browsers

As I have used only 4 browsers in my life, I would be concentrating only on those 4 browsers. They are Internet Explorer, Opera, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Internet Explorer :

As we all know 67% of net users prefer IE as their default browser as it comes packaged with Windows. But as I have used it I know that IE is the worst browser atleast in the 4 that I've used. It is damn slow in displaying the contents of the website. Also it hangs if overstressed by loading many heavy pages. IE7 and IE8 have improved a bit with additional features like tabs, InPrivate browsing, but still lags a lot from its competitors. Its interface is good and has large viewing area, which is the problem with Mozilla Firefox. It has the option of saving webpages in single file format, ie. MHTML on your HDD, but when you try to open it when offline it mostly fails to open or takes lot of time to open as searces for it again from internet. Also for saving the file it does not use the opened data but downloads the data all over again from internet, which is a waste. Internet Explorer does not come with a inbuilt downloader but can be integrated to many downloaders avilble like DAP, FDM, IEpro, etc. IE cannot open WAP sites which is a major drawback.

Mozilla Firefox :

Mozilla Firefox has 23% users globally. Mozilla has less viewing area as major part of the screen is gobbled up by the toolbars and menubar which is too big. It is comparatively faster than IE. Also it has good features like tab, inbuilt Downloader which is well to do but still lot to improve. It alos comes as default browser in Linux installations. Latest version available is 3.5.3.

Opera :

Opera has 2% users. It is low because of its policy of not advertising. Opera mini, the version for mobiles is the leading mobile browser in the world. Opera is the fastest browser in the world. It displays text content first so that the user can get information first and then when all the text is displayed goes for images which generally don't matter a lot. Its status bar is highly informative. It gives details like % of page opened, data received or sent by page in KBs, also displays the process that it is currently performing. When the processing of page is done the status bar automatically disappears, unlike other browsers where they stay, thus increasing the viewing area. Opera is embedded with a downloader, which has to improve a lot. Also includes BitTorrent client which great, and Email client which no other browsers includes. Opera can stop displaying images and sounds if selected and it can even identify itself as any other browser on internet if required. For slower internet connections it also has turbo feature where it gets the data in compressed form which increases its speed automatically. Also it saves pages in form of MHTML from the page opened earlier and doesn't get data again from internet as in IE, and opening it is also fast. Latest version of Opera is 10 and opera Mini is 4.

Google Chorme :

Google chrome is relatively new browser but has market share of 3%. It is created by taking inputs from all the browsers available in world so integrates all features combined. Its is faster than all browsers. It has the highest viewing area compared to all the browsers in the world. It has inbuilt downloader. It also has InCognito window where history is maintained. Its status bar is not informative and we do not know when the process is going on. The status bar comes and goes at its wish, which is a bad inclusion. Also if you have your passwords and usernames saved then you are definitely going to leak it as it displays all the usernames and passwords saved in it which is never advisable. also it has to be installed from internet and not an offline setup. Its latest version is 3.0(stable) and 4.0(beta).

Conclusion :

My conclusion is that comparing all the browsers above, Opera is the best browser available at our disposal, Which is fast and feature packed. I myself use Opera 10.